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title: How is it,' she asked, 'that when you have prayed for daily bread, y… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: How is it,' she asked, 'that when you have prayed for daily bread, you always add something I cannot understand? Who acts: middle, that, you, I. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Thirty-second Evening, sentence 16

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How is it,' she asked, 'that when you have prayed for daily bread, you always add something I cannot understand?

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**Who acts:** middle, that, you, I · **What happens:** be, ask, pray, add, not understand · **To what, where:** middle, something

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Thirty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (middle, that, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:123:16
# text = How is it,' she asked, 'that when you have prayed for daily bread, you always add something I cannot understand?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	prayed	pray	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	daily	daily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	21	advmod	_	_
21	add	add	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	21	obj	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | middle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | middle |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **pray** | present · perfect | that |  |  |  |  | for daily bread | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for bread=Theme |
| 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | you | something |  |  |  | always *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **understand** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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